Our story

Born in the East.
A Western mindset.
Now based in Madrid.

KNOHAO began in 2016 with a conviction: executive learning becomes more valuable when experienced people help you interpret a different business reality.

Roy Chason · Founder

Experience across
different systems.

Roy founded KNOHAO while working in Shanghai, after seeing the opportunity for more substantive international learning programs through his work at CEIBS.

An IESE MBA graduate with a political science background from UCLA, he has lived and worked across the United States, China, Israel and Europe. His work connects business education with the cultural and institutional context in which businesses actually operate.

Born in the East with a Western mindset, KNOHAO is now based in Madrid and works with senior partners across global destinations. Its Shanghai roots remain central to how it approaches China and the relationship between East and West.

The most useful perspective
is often the one you haven’t considered.

Upside Down Economics by Roy Chason. Cover featuring an upside-down burger and the words: When intelligence is free, meaning is the only currency.
Roy Chason’s writing

Upside Down
Economics.

The book explores how AI and abundance challenge familiar ideas about work, value and advantage. Its themes help frame the questions participants take into our learning journeys.

Explore the thinking

What would change the way you see?

Tell us about your group and the questions on your mind. We’ll start there.

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